Rocco Danzi

Rocco Danzi was an American Jesuit priest who served as Campus Ministry Chaplain for St. Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Biography
Rocco Danzi was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, and he attended St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he first encountered the Jesuits. After graduating from the university with a bachelor's degree in history, he taught elementary school at his diocese for three years, and he completed his master's degree at Iona College. In 1989, he was accepted into the Jesuit Novitate at St. Andrew's Hall in Syracuse, New York, and he found himself in love with pastoral work among urban youth. He completed his philosophy studies at Fordham University in 1993 and worked for three years with the youth of Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City. In 1996, he began studying theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and he did pastoral ministry among Haitian youths on weekends, travelling to the country itself during summers of theology. In 2000, he became an ordained priest, and he served at St. Ignatius Parish in Brooklyn, in New England, and in Haiti. Danzi would later go on to become the Campus Ministry Chaplain at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he became a beloved member of the Jesuit community.